Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muddle. There had been six "big" unsolved murders in New York City in the past 18 months. This looked like a seventh. A storm of reproaches and sarcasm gathered when, after ten days, no arrest had been made. Newspapers hinted broadly at "Protection...
...myself, and I feel certain that this is due to her enthusiastic entrance into all sports. In Japan the girls are showing enthusiasm for tennis, basketball, swimming and pole vaulting. Perhaps the most remarkable spectacle of these days is to see a party of Japanese girls climbing Mount Fiji. Ten or fifteen years ago this was unheard...
...finance its purchase, I. T. & T. announced an issue of $57,300,000 ten-year, 4½% gold debenture bonds, convertible after July 1, 1929, into I. T. & T. common stock. Heading the banking syndicate will be, of course, I. T. & T.'s early friend and first banker, the great house of J. P. Morgan...
...Falls. Mr. Rankine visited Mr. Perky, persuaded him to move to Niagara. Here Mr. Perky built a two million dollar plant, which, however, got him into financial difficulties. Thereupon Mr. Rankine interested various capitalists from New York City, Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the formation of a ten million dollar stock company, one such capitalist being Mr. Alexander J. Porter, now Shredded Wheat President. Mr. Perky subsequently retired from the business, which had become a Big Business, bought a farm in Maryland, near Baltimore, and started establishing a "boys' and girls' republic." The "republic" was to have...
...Ten years as managing director of the National Retail Dry Goods Association gave Lew Hahn intimate knowledge of department stores, plus "reputation," of which he had almost none when he began wrapping up shoes in Andrew Alexander's shop...